Tomorrow is National Cachaça Day here in Brazil.

You can read a beautiful text about the date at this link.
Here follows five cocktails from Brazilian bartenders for you to enjoy!

The first is a soon to be São Paulo classic. It’s named after 1928 Mario de Andrade’s modernist novel.

Macunaíma

(Arnaldo Hirai – Boca de Ouro bar – São Paulo)

• 1½oz gold Cachaça
• 1oz simple syrup
• ¾oz lime juice
• ¼oz Fernet

Shake and double strain into a coupe or other small glass. No garnish.

Following next a Negroni-esque beach inspired cocktail. The name is a reference to the Sbagliato. Estrago means damage or something that went wrong.

Strago

(João Morandi – Recife – Pernod Ricard Mixologist)

• 1oz white cachaça
• 1oz sweet vermouth
• 1oz campari
• 1oz coconut water

Stir and strain over ice into a rocks glass. Garnish with both a lemon and an orange twist.

Following next a variation on the national classic Rabo de Galo with a local vermouth-esque beverage called Jurubeba.

If you can find the jurubeba seeds you might try this cocktail by combining a sweet vermouth with a jurubeba infused cachaça.

Rê Bordosa

(Kennedy Nascimento – Riviera Bar – São Paulo)

• 1½oz gold Cachaça
• 1½oz Jurubeba Leão do Norte
• 2 tsp Cynar

Stir and serve up. Garnish with a lime twist.

Enought with the aromatic numbers.

Following next a traditional spin on the caipirinha.

Caipirinha do Arlindo

(Caio Bonneau – Ubatuba – SP)

• 2½oz Cachaça
• ¾oz simple syrup
• 1 rangpur lime (cutted in wedges)
• 3 mandarin leaves

Add the lime, leaves and syrup to a rocks glass and muddle. Add cubed ice, the cachaça and stir. Just like you would make a caipirinha.

To finish it up a recipe of my own creation. Making tribute to the Colonial Café where countryside people feast early morning around a table full of fruits, cakes, jams and all sorts of delicious brazilian food.

Colonial Highball

• 1½oz white Cachaça
• 1½oz lime juice
• ¾oz Jabuticaba liqueur
• 1 bsp orange marmalade
• 1½oz club soda

Dissolve the marmalade in the other ingredients. Shake and double strain over a highball glass filled with ice. Top with club soda. Garnish with a lime wedge.

You can also find more Cachaça cocktails over the Cachaça tag here at the blog.

Have a happy National Cachaça Day!
Saúde!